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The death and life of great American cities.

Author:	Jane Jacobs
Publisher:	[New York] Random House [1961]
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Subjects	City planning -- United States. City Planning. Stedenbouw.
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006. Death and life of great American cities. [New York] Random House [1961] (OCoLC)608829786
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Jane Jacobs Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	500754
Description:	458 p. 24 cm.
Contents:	Peculiar nature of cities: Uses of sidewalks, safety; Uses of sidewalks, contact; Uses of sidewalks, assimilating children; Uses of neighborhood parks; Uses of city neighborhoods -- Conditions for city diversity: Generators of diversity; Need for mixed primary uses; Need for small blocks; Need for aged buildings; Need for concentration; Some myths about diversity -- Forces of decline and regeneration: Self-destruction of diversity; curse of border vacuums; Unslumming and slumming; Gradual money and cataclysmic money -- Different tactics: Subsidizing dwellings; Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles; Visual order, its limitations and possibilities; Salvaging projects; Governing and planning districts; Kind of problem a city is.

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